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Definition of Fallacy
1. Noun. A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning.
Specialized synonyms: Pseudoscience, Logical Fallacy, Pathetic Fallacy, Sophism, Sophistication, Sophistry, Paralogism
Generic synonyms: Misconception
Derivative terms: Fallacious
Definition of Fallacy
1. n. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Definition of Fallacy
1. Noun. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. ¹
2. Noun. (logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fallacy
1. a false idea [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallacy
Literary usage of Fallacy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"Time the innovator-general, a counter- fallacy. Among the stories current in the
profession of the law, is that of an attorney, who, when his client applied ..."
2. The Science of Logic: An Inquiry Into the Principles of Accurate Thought and by Peter Coffey (1912)
"It is as much the duty of logic to expose this " undue assumption of axioms "
as, for instance, to expose the fallacy of arguing that " because all the ..."
3. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"It would be the same kind of fallacy to assert in reply that since this country is a
... The fallacy consists in holding that the lack of proof that a ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"ON THE USE OF METAPHOR AND "PATHETIC fallacy" IN POETRY. THERE is an important
question connected with the principles of poetic art which the high authority ..."
5. Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors by James Freeman Clarke (1897)
"But as these results are not accepted by those who yet accept the principles of
Orthodoxy, it is necessary to see if there is a fallacy anywhere in our ..."
6. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"fallacy of Minute Distinctions The second fallacy is that minute distinctions of
sound can be disregarded—or, in other words, that a bad pronunciation does ..."
7. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1858)
"This is a fallacy with which men are extremely apt to deceive themselves; ...
In the second great fallacy of Confusion they are neither verbally nor really ..."
8. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"For example, the sovereign cure for the Phrenological fallacy, and for all other
fallacies, no matter in what department, is pronounced to be the study of ..."
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